“First we have roll call,” Johnny said. (3) The repetition of the phrase ‘roll call’ used in this dialog is given such significance because it is used by the new teacher as a method of control the students. She manipulates the students here by controlling them. Even Johnny finally concedes to the manipulation by attacking his own father. “I ALWAYS WONDERED WHY HE DIDN’T LISTEN, AND ALL THE TIME HE WASN’T THERE” (7).
Gatto says that school diminishes creativity; if anything kids discover their hidden creativeness in class while at school. He also says that kids are not able to advance in higher learning. When clearly, kids are able to follow the teacher and be able to get A's while the subjects get more extreme. Gatto says, "teachers tend to blame the kids, as you might expect"(pg. 683) from personal experiences I can say that I have had great relationships with my teachers throughout elementary school and especially High school.
Introduction For all human beings, mistakes are inevitable. Our ideology leads us to repair the damage and purify ourselves. On an individual level, recovery can be as simple as apologizing. For organizations and public figures, there are specific strategies used to restore a positive image. “Because blame occurs throughout human society and because face is important to virtually everyone, this phenomenon, a felt need to cleanse one’s reputation with discourse, occurs throughout our lives, public and private” (Benoit, 1995, p. 5).
“ (Moore 141). While Moore focuses more on the advertising established into school and companies promoting themselves using schools, Gatto speaks more one the effect that this way of schooling creates the adults in the world. Also he explains how marketing on the school systems is keeping the adults nowadays very “childish” or young in the mind. (Gatto 149) According to Gatto if you strip children of all of their independence, and only develop their trivial emotions, they would never truly grow up. (Gatto 154).
He then continues on to say that we shouldn’t blame the teachers or the students; in this case, we should blame ourselves. He says we are all to blame because the obligation to amuse and instruct ourselves is entirely our own choice and that if we are bored it is nobody’s fault but our own. Gatto is correct in his assertion that the current school system is harmful to students in that it robs them of the ability to be free thinkers. John Taylor Gatto learned as a child something really important in life that was taught by his grandfather. He expresses that “Of course, teachers are themselves products of the same twelve-year compulsory school programs that so thoroughly bore their students, and as school personnel they are trapped inside structures… The obligation to amuse and instruct myself was entirely my own, and people who didn't know that were childish people, to be avoided if possible.”(1) Gatto learned that being bored was an action that he was only responsible for.
First, Gatto refers to a lesson his grandfather taught him at the ripe age of 7; his grandpa declared that if Gatto was bored that it was his fault and no one else’s. This cured him of boredom forever. John talks about this episode with his grandpa because he wants to try to get the reader to connect with him on a personal level. Then he goes on to say “Often I had to defy custom, and even bend the law, to help kids break out of this trap”
The movie explores the relationship amongst high school students who are socially separated, are forced together and find that they had more in common than they initially thought. The symbolic interaction theory supports this result saying, “Education emerges depending on the character of social interaction between groups in schools [and] schools are sites where social interaction between groups influences changes for individual and group success” (Margaret L. Anderson, 2008). Before the movie begins there is a quote from musician David Bowie saying, “..and these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds are immune to your consultations. They are quite aware of what they’re going through…” (Changes, 1972). The song expresses how people are aware of society’s views, so people try to change what society thinks of them and when they are trying to change they ultimately ignore what society thinks.
At the beginning of Ender’s Game Ender has a monitor strapped to his neck to monitor everything he sees and does. The government puts it on many “special” children to see if they show any sign of being smart enough to go to Command School. Ender’s other siblings had the monitor on them also but they didn’t show the sign to go to Command School. He gets the monitor taken off and he thinks that everything is over. Right when he gets it taken off one of the school bullies tries to assault him.
Nancy Barrios-Ochoa COUN 100 MW 04/18/2011 Damone Hale, Esquire Damone Hale is a San Francisco based attorney who is really focused on the community. He was born in Compton, California, where he lived with his adopted family. His mother saw that he was going to go down the wrong path and did everything she could to keep him out of the juvenile criminal system. She placed him in Hollywood High School, away from his “home boys” and had him focus on school. From there he learned about who was a good influence for him, and who he should stop hanging out with because they would get him in trouble.
In The Power of One, although Hoppie influences Peekay for a short amount of time, he turns Peekay’s life around and leads him to his greatest passion, boxing. Hoppie realizes that Peekay’s brokenness and depression is caused by the kids at school who bully him for being a rooinek, and he shows Peekay compassion and kindness. Without Hoppie Peekay may have never been introduced to boxing or be proud to be a rooinek. With the loss of Granpa Chook fresh in his head, Peekay reaches his lowest point. He tries to camouflage himself so he does not stand out as a rooinek because the kids at school bully and discriminate against him because of his English heritage.